Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x02 - "Disengage"

[Nerys Myk]

Well, they had Dr. Daystrom in TOS.
I don't mean to say that TOS was very inclusive by today's standards, but it sure was relatively progressive compared to other stuff on tv in America at that time.

I believe Star Trek was part of a "trend" not a brave lone rebel. A trend spearheaded by advertisers who wanted to tap into the POC market. If you look around the American TV landscape of the mid to late Sixties, you'll see characters like Kinchloe (Hogan's Heroes), Barney (Mission: Impossible), Gail (Mannix), Julia (Julia) and others.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Shrike looks like a ginormous Tie Silencer/Interceptor.

I've heard it suggested that the Shrike is actually

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a Romulan ship.

Specifically, the same class as the Narada - well, before the Narada got all that extra technology (seriously, don't even try to tell me that the huge-ass monstrosity we saw in ST09 is what a MINING ship is supposed to look like).

 

[Mike Doyle]

Wait, that's not a French accent???

I know this is a joke but the long running joke was addressed in season 2. The Picard family moved from France to England after WW2 and the accent (and presumably love of tea) has come from that.

 

[Yistaan]

I know this is a joke but the long running joke was addressed in season 2. The Picard family moved from France to England after WW2 and the accent (and presumably love of tea) has come from that.

The showrunners have all but said that

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Jack was raised in Britain to explain his accent, so we'll see soon if they're pulling our leg or legit revealing spoilers. But if it's true, that means Jack was literally a Chunnel/Eurotunnel ride away from Jean-Luc during the majority of the 14 years he spent in France doing nothing. Beverly has a lot of explaining to do.

 

[Search4]

A woman cannot legally list a father on the birth certificate if the father is not there to sign an acknowledgement of paternity or a court has not issued an order establishing that a certain man is the legal father. I doubt that would have changed in the 24th century or you could have a bunch of women naming celebrities or royalty as the fathers of their children. I would assume no father is named on Jack Crusher’s official record of birth. Certainly, his father would not be listed as a man who had been dead for three decades or so when he was born. The only way that would have happened is if there had been DNA testing and an acknowledgement by Beverly that she had used the sperm of her dead husband, with his permission on the record, or embryos they had created before his death, to have a child.

She can probably recreate the sperm if needed.

 

[Tuskin38]

I've heard it suggested that the Shrike is actually

Spoiler

a Romulan ship.

Specifically, the same class as the Narada - well, before the Narada got all that extra technology (seriously, don't even try to tell me that the huge-ass monstrosity we saw in ST09 is what a MINING ship is supposed to look like).

Looks more Son'a than Romulan to me.

 

[Noname Given]

She was born on Earth according to her Bio in Episode 1.

But in the TNG S1 episode The Arsenal of Freedom, Beverly Crusher herself stated she grew up on the Arvada III colony, and there was some sort of disaster at that colony; and when regular medical supplies ran out her grandmother learned to use various roots and herbs, and pass some of that knowledge onto Beverly. It's what inspired Beverly pressure to become a doctor.

I also believe there was another shot of Beverly crushers medical record in the TNG S5 episode Conundrum, that indicated she was born on a lunar colony on Earth's moon.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I've heard it suggested that the Shrike is actually

Spoiler

a Romulan ship.

Specifically, the same class as the Narada - well, before the Narada got all that extra technology (seriously, don't even try to tell me that the huge-ass monstrosity we saw in ST09 is what a MINING ship is supposed to look like).

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What should a mining ship look like? Has a lot of tentacle things for grabbing stuff. Sharp bladey things and a laser for cutting stuff. Should do fine for getting things out of space rocks.

 

[Tuskin38]

But in the TNG S1 episode The Arsenal of Freedom, Beverly Crusher herself stated she grew up on the Arvada III colony, and there was some sort of disaster at that colony; and when regular medical supplies ran out her grandmother learned to use various roots and herbs, and pass some of that knowledge onto Beverly. It's what inspired Beverly pressure to become a doctor.

I also believe there was another shot of Beverly crushers medical record in the TNG S5 episode Conundrum, that indicated she was born on a lunar colony on Earth's moon.

We were talking about Raffi not Crusher.

 

[Yistaan]

I've heard it suggested that the Shrike is actually

Spoiler

a Romulan ship.

Specifically, the same class as the Narada - well, before the Narada got all that extra technology (seriously, don't even try to tell me that the huge-ass monstrosity we saw in ST09 is what a MINING ship is supposed to look like).

Not sure why you're spoiler tagging speculation, but the Narada having extra tech is something that came from the now non-canon Star Trek Countdown comic book, which was thrown into a continuity black hole once Picard aired. According to official canon as it stands now short of new canonical info, the Narada as it looks like is indeed a mining ship...

 

[Tuskin38]

from the now non-canon Star Trek Countdown comic book

It was never canon in the first place.

 

[Noname Given]

We were talking about Raffi not Crusher.

DOH! My bad.

 

[Ridcully]

Well it is a bird...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

short of new canonical info, the Narada as it looks like is indeed a mining ship...

One designed by HP Lovecraft, maybe.

 

[urbandk]

It was never canon in the first place.

Those countdown comic series did some heavy lifting making Nero and neo-Khan make sense

 

[jackoverfull]

I've heard it suggested that the Shrike is actually

Spoiler

a Romulan ship.

this would explain the musical cues that play on the bridge and while showing it in space.

 

[Farscape One]

But in the TNG S1 episode The Arsenal of Freedom, Beverly Crusher herself stated she grew up on the Arvada III colony, and there was some sort of disaster at that colony; and when regular medical supplies ran out her grandmother learned to use various roots and herbs, and pass some of that knowledge onto Beverly. It's what inspired Beverly pressure to become a doctor.

I also believe there was another shot of Beverly crushers medical record in the TNG S5 episode Conundrum, that indicated she was born on a lunar colony on Earth's moon.

You can easily be born one place but grow up somewhere else.

 

[thribs]

Almost all Trek lore was "invented for just one episode".

Also, another note...Kestra Troi-Riker took both her parents' surnames, but put the mother's surname first.

Isn’t that because in betazoid tradition the man changes his name?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Isn’t that because in betazoid tradition the man changes his name?

Where was that said?

 

[thribs]

Well, because the writers of the new series realized that we live in the 21st century? I've done some research and it seems that only recently in the States is anyone realizing that it's an incredibly patriarchal tradition. I found this article from 2013(!) titled "Why should married women change their names?" and honestly it seems to me rather late to ask this question.

It’s never been a mandatory thing. No one forces the woman to change her name. I work a lot of weddings and the majority of brides are excited that they get to change their name. Especially when it comes to signing it for the first time.